Barclays Center Rising
This photo is the best one we’ve seen of the progress at the Barclays Center, the future home of The Nets and the first piece of the Atlantic Yards project. And it should: It was sent out by someone in-house to potential buyers of basketball tickets yesterday!
This photo is the best one we’ve seen of the progress at the Barclays Center, the future home of The Nets and the first piece of the Atlantic Yards project. And it should: It was sent out by someone in-house to potential buyers of basketball tickets yesterday!
Seems like the totally wrong weather for digging and pouring concrete, no?
I’m still upset about the fact you can no longer walk to Ft. Greene down 6th Ave. Is the plan to keep it closed? What abot Carlton?
I don’t like this project, or Atlantic Center or Metrotech, from an urban planning perspective. Where are the service bays going to be? Poking their butts back towards Prospect Heights like Metrotech does towards downtown Brooklyn? How car oriented in the complex going to be? If Rattner’s other projects are any indication, quite. Very anti-urban.
I also feel sad for lovely Calton Avenue, clearly a future destination for public urination….
It becomes a problem when none of the people who keep this city running (transit, sanitation, fire, police, etc.) can afford to live here anymore. That day will come if Bloomberg’s plans continue. Very short-sighted. Of course, if you’re a billionaire, you can hire people to do all that for you and pay them losts of money. Like if you only travel by car service you really don’t care about the “little people” on the subways (I know Bloomberg does occasionally take the subway for publicity’s sake; this comment was intended for another poster here).
bxgrl, my hope for future projects is that, like with the destruction of the old Penn Station, we’ve all learned a lesson here and will never let such a thing happen again – it’s a call for all of us to never stop being vigilant about what’s around us. And I hope that government officials have learned that they can’t just slide things through anymore without encountering resistance. The shame of it here is that’s it’s too late for Coney Island as well.
“but it does not provide affordable housing for middle and lower-middle class working New Yorkers pushed out of their neighborhoods increasing rents and the influx of higher-income residents.” – babs
And why should it? Should the city provide subsidy to the millionaires who can no longer afford Park and 5th Ave because they were pushed out by the billionaires, or should the city subsidize those in the 500K+ bracket who can no longer afford the upper east or west side because they were pushed out by the millionaires, or should the city subsidize the 200K+ crowd who cant afford almost anywhere in Manhattan because they were pushed out by the 500K+ people. and should the city subsidize the 100+ people who no longer can afford Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill because they were forced out by the 200K+ people. Should the city subsidize the 75K+ people who can no longer afford Windsor Terrace and Prospect Heights because they are being forced out by the 100K+ people???
At what point in the income scale does one stop being the problem and instead become the victim worthy of Govt assistance? Because near as I can tell, in a rising housing market (which NYC has been with 2 short exceptions since the early 1980s) virtually everyone at every income level has been “forced out” of one neighborhood or another.
Even more important than this construction bizznass:
did you hear they want to rename the Nets the “Brooklyn New Yorkers” ?? how effin lame is that?!?!
11217- I hope so too. If its going to happen I can only hope for its success because a failure at this point would be devastating.
I do worry that this will be the m.o. for big projects from now on, though. It isn’t like we can trust the pols or ESDC to care about people- they only care about numbers and power.The high-handedness is the most disturbing thing to me. The shallow way of assessing what is good for the city (or Brooklyn). But like you, at this point I can only hope for the best. 🙂
The building on 15th St and Fifth Avenue contains 49 units of supportive affordable housing for the following populations: senior citizens, youths who have aged out of foster care and yet are not able to support themselves independently, and other low income people with special needs. It is not, for example, for families (most are studio apartments) or able, working adults who can no longer afford the rents in Park Slope or nearby.
Sure, Emperor Bloomberg counts this in his total, but it does not provide affordable housing for middle and lower-middle class working New Yorkers pushed out of their neighborhoods increasing rents and the influx of higher-income residents.
My comments are based thoroughly on reality – the reality that lies behind politicians’ spin. As for my issues and misconceptions, those are certainly fabrications in your own head since you don’t know me at all.
All I have to say about this picture is……Thank God – I admit, that deep down I always thought it wouldnt get built, that AY would suffer the death of a thousand cuts that has destroyed so many projects in this City. But there is is! tangible proof that in 3 yrs we will be able to go see NBA and NCAA basketball, Circuses, shows, concerts and all sorts of events within walking distance of close to a quarter-of-million people. It cant be stopped now and for that I say AMEN!
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